Bitdefender SecurePass Review and Pricing in 2025

Getting Started: Buying a SecurePass Subscription

Unlike NordPass’ pricing and that of most other companies, Bitdefender doesn’t offer many subscription options for its password manager as a standalone product. You only need to decide whether you want to pay month-to-month, or each year. If you decide to go with an annual subscription, it works out to be less per month than the monthly subscription. It costs $2.99 with monthly billing, and $19.99 with annual payments. The annual plan averages $1.67 per month.

That said, Bitdefender also offers its password manager as part of various bundle packages, from the value-tier Total Security Package to the premium-tier Ultimate Security Plus with Extended Coverage package. In case you’re interested in picking up comprehensive coverage, let’s have a quick glance at three tiers of packages.

Our Experience Setting Up SecurePass

Because we were testing SecurePass as a standalone product, we only needed to decide if we wanted to pay $2.99 per month or $19.99 for the year (at an average of $1.67 per month).

After going with the monthly plan, we entered our payment information, including our credit card number and home address. We then downloaded the extension by logging into the Bitdefender Central dashboard and clicking on the SecurePass tab to find a download link.

Finally, we were ready to start setting up SecurePass. After downloading the extension, we had to give it permission to access web pages and save passwords in our vault. We were also asked to allow SecurePass to collect anonymized data to help with user experience and performance. SecurePass doesn’t require this though, and we don’t recommend it.

Next, we had to create a Master Password that would allow us into our vault. Strangely, Bitdefender didn’t give us any parameters when it came to setting up our Master Password, but it was also quite strict about what it would accept. Twice, we were told that the password we chose was too short. After we got one that was long enough, we were then told that it wasn’t complex enough. We finally got it right on the fourth try.

After our Master Password was accepted, we were given a complex 27-character recovery key to be used if we forgot our password. This recovery key is meant to be kept in a secure place, and it can be a handy way to recover a forgotten Master Password. But what if you lose your recovery key? And this raises the question, why can’t we just keep our Master Password in the same secure location where we are supposed to keep our recovery key?

In our 1Password review, we discussed how that company recommends printing out a hard copy of its Secret Key and storing it in a safe place. You should then delete all evidence of the key from your computer. This gives you a handy backup code, and it keeps your recovery key separate from your Master Password, which should really be stored only in your brain.

Bitdefender then told us we had to disable Firefox’s built-in password manager by going into the Privacy & Security settings. Fortunately, this was done for us automatically, so we didn’t have to do anything. Because we had been using the built-in Firefox password manager, we had to export all of our existing login information and import it into SecurePass. This relatively straightforward process involved exporting a .CSV file from Firefox that we then imported into SecurePass. Incidentally, SecurePass is capable of directly importing from another password manager, such as 1Password or Dashlane. After importing our .CSV file, all of our Firefox passwords showed up in our Bitdefender vault.

What We Got from SecurePass

SecurePass provided standard features you would expect from a password manager. It also provided a few features that aren’t typically standard. For example, we really enjoyed the Total Password during our testing, but it didn’t have the ability to securely share passwords or credit card information.

So, let’s go over what we got with our SecurePass subscription.

Auto-Save and Autofill Login, Identity, and Credit Card Information

Like any password manager, the SecurePass extension and app can automatically save new or updated login, credit card, or identity information. You can also manually enter information in the SecurePass dashboard or mobile app. Saved information can automatically be filled in with a tap on your device, or a click on the Bitdefender logo that appears in the text box.

SecurePass also automatically syncs all of your login information across your devices if you have the apps and browser extensions installed. Although it’s par for the course, we’ll never get sick of being able to add a new account login on our phone and see it pop up in our browser.

Password Generator

In addition to featuring a password generator pop-up for new passwords, the dashboard also has a handy section that allows you to create unique passwords based on parameters like length and characters. You can also eliminate uppercase and lowercase letters from the alphabet used to generate random passwords. It works similarly to our own password generator (which you can use for free), and while it’s a great feature to have, it is once again par for the course.

Security Scan

Located in the Security Report section of the SecurePass dashboard, the security scan feature checks all of the passwords in your vault to see if any are weak, old, duplicates, or part of a data breach. Bitdefender says it uses a “database of known data leaks” to see if any of your passwords have been compromised, but it doesn’t specify which database.

Two-Factor Authenticator

Rather than switching apps to fetch a one-time passcode sent to your email or text message inbox, SecurePass can be used as a two-factor authenticator app. This requires a bit of setup, but it’s a more convenient way to handle two-factor authentication.

Secure Sharing

Not all password managers can securely share passwords and other information, but SecurePass is one of them. If you want to share a password, credit card details, or anything else in your vault, you can generate a secure link that can be sent to someone else. You can also specify an expiration date for the link, a limit for the number of times it can be used, and whether the link is password-protected.

You can also create secure groups of SecurePass users that can all securely share information. You can set access rights for each group member based on the restrictions you want to place, such as read-only access.

Lock Account

The ability to lock your account on all devices is a handy feature for a few different situations. For example, if one of your kids wants to borrow your laptop and you’re worried they might try to buy something with your credit card. In this situation, you could lock your account on your laptop by using the Bitdefender SecurePass app. Conversely, if you lose your phone, you could lock it from your laptop.

Secure Notes

As with other password managers, SecurePass allows you to securely store notes. This is a handy way to keep track of sensitive information you don’t want to fall into the wrong hands. In fact, a password-protected vault is one of the secure places we recommend for storing documents and files that contain personally identifiable information (PII).

To be clear, that’s a lot of features for just $1.67 per month. How does the functionality of SecurePass stack up to others? Read our list of best password managers to find out.

User Experience

We found that SecurePass worked largely as advertised. We didn’t have any problems with the setup and the interface was easy to use. That might not sound very impressive, but you’d be surprised at how many fly-by-night operations throw together a password manager to make a quick buck without much thought.

However, we did have a few issues during our testing. One particularly annoying issue involved the Firefox extension not automatically filling in our login information, forcing us to click on the Bitdefender logo in the text box. However, the Chrome extension did autofill without clicking. We’ve seen this with other password managers in the past, so maybe it’s just a Firefox design quirk that has nothing to do with the password manager itself.

>> Other Options: The Best Firefox Password Managers

There were a few times that Bitdefender didn’t recognize the website we were on as well. In these situations, we had to use the extension’s drop-down menu to search for our login information, which was listed under a slightly different web address. We then had to individually copy and paste our username and password.

We also had issues with the Security Report section of the web-based dashboard. While the mobile app went further by suggesting ways to strengthen individual passwords—such as increasing length or not reusing an old password—the web-based dashboard only flagged up our “bad” passwords for being weak or duplicates.

Also, changing our weak passwords wasn’t as easy as with other password managers. Some managers we’ve tested have a one-click feature that sends you (or at least attempts to) to a page for the account where you can change your weak password. SecurePass makes you do it all manually. Typing out each website is kind of a pain when you have a lot of passwords that have been flagged up, and honestly it made us not want to bother at all.

>> See More: The Best Password Managers for iPhone

Is it Worth It?

For the low, low price of $1.67 per month, SecurePass is worth the money. First of all, we always recommend using a dedicated password manager over the default password manager found in browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

Second, SecurePass delivers on the core functions of any good password manager. It automatically saves and fills in your login information when you need it to do so. It also has a secure and searchable vault that makes it easy to find a username and password when auto-filling isn’t happening.

But honestly, that’s about it for SecurePass. We didn’t like that the Security report didn’t give us the option of going to fix our weak password with a single click. The mobile app was nice enough to tell us why it thought individual passwords were weak, but the web-based dashboard didn’t offer the same information.

There also weren’t a lot of add-ons or nice little perks that we’ve seen in other password managers. That might be asking for a lot given the price tag, but once you have those nice little perks like email aliasing, it’s hard to look at other password managers and not be a bit wistful.

So, what’s a better password manager you say?

If you’ve read our Total Password review, you’ll know that it doesn’t have the same shortcomings as SecurePass. It also has additional features like email aliasing and remote logout. You should also check out our NordPass review. We like that it uses top-class encryption and has affordable pricing.